History

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Founded in 2001 as an after-school robotics club at Sandy Run Middle School, UDRI has since expanded to all six schools in the Upper Dublin School District. UDRI enables nearly one hundred students ages nine to eighteen to participate in the international FIRST robotics programs each year. Over the past ten years, the organization has founded a high school FIRST Tech Challenge team and two middle school FIRST Lego League teams, while maintaining an intramural Lego robotics program.

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2016-2017 Season

So far this year, FTC Team 230 Ampere has qualified for State Championship in York. At the last Qualifying Tournament, Ampere won the Motivate Award, the Inspire Award Runner Up and was also the 4th Alliance Captain.

2010-2011 Season

UDRI has a long history of success. The Upper Dublin FTC teams have not only placed first at regional tournaments throughout the Northeast, but have also won many awards for community outreach and design innovation. After winning the Inspire Award—the highest award presented at a tournament, recognizing all-around excellence in robot design, game performance, innovation, problem solving, community outreach, teamwork, and embodiment of FIRST values—the Upper Dublin FTC teams qualified to attend the 2011 World Championship in St. Louis, Missouri this April. This will be UDRI’s fourth World Championship; teams have also competed in Tokyo, Japan and twice in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tournaments:

Northern New York
- 230 Ampere (FTC) - Inspire Award
Delaware
- 4621 Volta (FLL) - 2nd Place Overall

This year's FTC Game: Get Over It! and FLL Game: Body Forward

2009-2010 Season

UDRI teams have a long history of competition success, and this year is no exception. The Upper Dublin FIRST Tech Challenge teams recently qualified to attend the World Championship held in Atlanta, Georgia in April 2010.

The UDRI FIRST Tech Challenge teams attended the Northern New York Qualifying Tournament in Potsdam, New York. Team 230 won the Inspire Award – the highest award presented at a tournament –recognizing all-around excellence in robot design, game performance, innovation and problem solving, community outreach, teamwork, and embodiment of FIRST values. Team 229 won the Connect Award for outreach and service within the local and engineering community.

At the Diamond State Tournament in Delaware, team 230 was a part of the winning alliance and also won the Connect Award. Additionally, FIRST Lego League team 6120 won an award for their research presentation.

Sponsors are needed to help to defray the estimated fifteen thousand dollar cost of the trip to Atlanta and to support the UDRI mission of providing high-quality experience in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to over sixty students each year and maintaining positive community involvement.

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